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Francis J. Hopcroft

theprogrammatic experience, it is possible to create measurable interim standards and ask thestudent to document attainment of those interim standards each semester.Inherent in the concept of interim standards, which are necessarily soft from a measurementperspective, is the need to define vague and subjective concepts in precise and measurable terms.While the term "oxymoron" may spring to the mind at such a suggestion, it is, in fact, amanageable task in the context of outcome assessment.Attachment 1 shows the matrix of learning objectives and achievement expectations provided to Page 5.657.3all students in the Wentworth Environmental Engineering Program

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Phillip R. Rosenkrantz

methodology is the future potential for external auditorassessment and comparing to best practices of other institutions.Total Quality Management (TQM) - In 1992 the IME Department used a combinations ofseveral of the tools to develop a new manufacturing engineering curriculum. “Voice of thecustomer” from QFD, affinity diagrams, and interrelationship charts were used with excellentresults2. Kaufman also proposes a more comprehensive approach to TQM for educationalplanners called QM+1.Quality Function Deployment (QFD) – QFD is an excellent, efficient approach for identifyingthe “voice of the customer” and designing an efficient system around their requirements. QFDhas been widely adapted ever since for use in government, education, and the non-profit

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Robert L. Armacost; Robert Hoekstra; Michael A. Mullens

provides an assessmentof the impact on student motivation/commitment and attainment of learning objectives.II. Service LearningMintz and Liu3 have defined service learning as: “a method and philosophy of experiential learning through which participants in community service meet community needs while developing their abilities for critical thinking and group problem-solving, their commitment and values and the skills needed for effective citizenship. The core elements of service learning are (1) service activities that help meet community needs that the community finds important and (2) structured educational components that challenge participants to think critically about and learn from their

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Manuel D. Rossetti; Harriet Black Nembhard

Session 2557Using Active and Cooperative Learning in Industrial Engineering Education Manuel D. Rossetti1 , Harriet Black Nembhard2 University of Arkansas 1 /University of Wisconsin-Madison2AbstractActive and cooperative learning methods recognize that the passive model of the typical collegelecture does not work for many students. Instead, active and cooperative learning focuses on thepremise that the students can learn best by doing and working with each other. In traditionallystructured class periods, students listen to a professor lecture for about an hour. Cooperativelearning can replace some of that lecture time

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Daniel M. Chen

instructor often sits withstudents at the computer to offer advice and monitor their modeling skill and physicalunderstanding of the problem. The focuses of this investigation are on: (1) how the CADsoftware is used as a visually driven design tool, (2) how the tool allows students to see andincrease their understanding the effects of different design parameters, and (3) what difficultiesstudents encounter while using the software.I. IntroductionCurrently in the industry, the CAE software packages have a wide range and sophisticatedcapabilities. They are becoming more and more user-friendly, easier to operate and master.Some of these software packages in the market today include Unigraphics, CATIA,Pro/ENGINEER, I-DEAS, etc. The capabilities of all

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Devdas M. Pai; Shih-Liang Wang; Juri Filatovs; Richard Layton

some path or motion that result in moving the rock from the ground toa carrier or receiver on the body of the vehicle. Students had to define their ownpath generation or motion generation problem. For the sample design shown below,the group formulated the problem as a path generation problem, where the tip of ascoop follows a path prescribed by the students. Basing their design on a coupler Page 5.689.2curve2 matching their prescribed path, the group developed the four-bar mechanismshown in Figure 1. Figure 1 Side view of a four-bar rock-retriever mechanism.The relevance of this project to manufacturing arises in the fabrication phase of

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Nicole DeJong; Ken Van Treuren; Don Farris; Cindy Fry

description,design directives, a listing of owner-supplied materials, a detailed discussion of the requiredsubmittals, the judging procedures, and a list of the points of contact (for questions, comments,clarification). The teams are required to submit a proposed design to the Department ofEngineering, also known as the “Owner.” A prototype structure is constructed by the designteams and subsequently tested to destruction by the owner. The goal of the project is to build abridge that supports the greatest load, as tested by the owner.The balsa wood structure must span a gap of 15.25 inches between two wooden support blocks(see Figure 1). The support blocks have dimensions of 3” x 9”. Prior to loading, no portion of thestructure may lie below the

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Lucy C. Morse

incorporate distance education into their setting, virtual teams or e-teams arebecoming a part of engineering education. The use of the e-team technique in a distanceeducation engineering course is not without problems. Since there is no timeworn body ofexperience to draw from, team members and the professor have to be open to experimentation,often discovering in hindsight what makes an e-team successful.I. IntroductionFor the last two decades teams have become an integral part of the workforce and teamwork isessential within modern industry. One of the eight guiding principles for management of themodern enterprise that Betz gives is teaming. 1 Workers today must be able to work together ininterdisciplinary teams to carry out and coordinate the

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Abbes Berrais

SPARCstation under the UNIX operating system, and using Quintec-Prolog,Quintec-Flex, and FORTRAN 77 as programming environment. The paper concludes with asummary and recommendations on future impact of artificial intelligence and EStechnologies on computer-aided engineering education.1. IntroductionComputers have been introduced as an element into the teaching environment for a long timenow. Until recently, computers have been used for relatively routine calculations such as:report writing, spreadsheets, drafting, and simple simulations. Very rarely are computers usedto help teach and visualize fundamental concepts, or to explore the alternative solutions of a 1design project . The integration of computers in higher education is still

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Edgar N. Reyes; Carl Steidley; Mario Garcia

a continuation of our earlier work on how to \best" wire an integrated circuit.1 IntroductionIn this paper, we continue our investigation into the global wiring of integrated circuits [1]. From the citedpaper, we briey recall that the wires are to be laid out on an n-by-n lattice G. We can think of G asa wafer, shaped as a square, with n2 points, n columns, n rows, and each column and row has exactly npoints. Any pair of two points in G will be connected by a wire exactly when the points do not lie on thesame row or same column. Moreover, the shape of the wire must be L-shaped. Let mv be the number ofwires passing through the vth link (a link is the horizontal or vertical segment which connects two adjacentpoints in the same row or

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

as isshown in the table below. 1 INTRODUCTION• What is Project Proposal• Expectations and goals of the course• First Class Training• Choose 3 or 4 topics suitable for the Senior Project Outcome Task1: List and submit 3 to 4 topics of interest for the Senior Project. Page 5.694.3 2 DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE TOPICS• Discussion of topics submitted by each group in the First Class environment• Identify strengths and weaknesses of each proposed topic, difficulty, originality and viability to design and build it in the Spring Semester

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Ben Humphrey

us by others.The millions of dollars spent to remove asbestos from our living and working environments, isevidence of what ignorance can lead to. How true it is that "Near acquaintance doth diminishreverent fear."1 In the face of strong evidence, we ignore obvious connections between illnessand even death and unprotected use of chemicals. "There is nothing more terrible thanignorance in action"2Endless volumes of regulations have been written for industry about the workers’ "Right-to-Know" the risk under which they work. In 1970, with passage of the Occupational Safety andHealth Act, standards were set up for industry "to assure so far as possible every working manand woman in the nation safe and healthful working conditions"3 . Two main

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Robert P Hesketh; Kauser Jahan; Stephanie Farrell; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

Session 1526 8VLQJ 0HPEUDQH 3URFHVV ([SHULPHQWV LQ D 3URMHFW2ULHQWHG (QYLURQPHQW C. Stewart Slater (1), Kauser Jahan (2), Stephanie Farrell (1), Robert P. Hesketh (1), and Kevin D. Dahm (1) (1) Department of Chemical Engineering (2) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028 Abstract This paper describes a NSF-funded Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement (ILI) project onmembrane process

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John C. Anderson; David Kelso; Charles Yarnoff; Barbara Shwom; Penny Hirsch

curriculum.1-2 It is the rare new course,particularly in engineering design or in introductory engineering courses, that doesn’t strive to helpstudents develop more of the communication competencies they will need in industry, that is, tocommunicate effectively with team members and clients, write clear reports and proposals, anddeliver polished oral presentations. To help students acquire these skills, more and more engineeringeducators are exploring ways to integrate communication instruction throughout the engineeringcurriculum instead of sending students to stand-alone courses in English and speech, where theinstruction has nothing to do with engineering and thus leaves the students responsible for learninghow to apply their newly acquired

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Victor F. Medina; Valarie Akerson; Nina Wang

report on their work, thereby improving writing skills. The students alsopresented their project orally at the end of the course.The study spanned the spring semester. The class was comprised of seven students. Sixwere obtaining a Master of Science degree in Environmental Engineering. The seventhstudent was taking the course as an upper division Civil Engineering elective. Their agesranged between 27 and 50, with a mean of 32 years.Assigned ProjectsThree assigned laboratory projects were given:1. An irrigation water quality project relating water quality parameters to the type of irrigation canal tested.2. A contaminated soil project focussing on the relationship of biological activity to soil contamination and other soil properties3. A

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Sergy Lyshevski; Akhouri S. C. Sinha; Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto; Mohamed El-sharkawy; Richard Pfile

important to prepare engineers and technologists for the EV and HEV industry.2.2 Course TopicsAs shown in the block diagram in figure 1, the electronic fundamentals of the electric vehiclesconsist of power electronics of the inverter, where the solid state devices (IGBT) and pulse-widthmodulation (PWM) circuitries reside, the three-phase motor, a battery system, and a dataacquisition system. There are two versions of EV1 propulsion system: a motor with a controllerand without a controller. In the latter, Texas Instruments (TI) DSP controller is utilized to controlthe system. Details of these topics and the problem associated with the design havebeen presented elsewhere [1-3]. 12V Lab

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Thomas Hall

theposttest. The students responded on a Likert scale of 1 – 5. In these four questions, studentswere asked to evaluate their own learning of the following: ♦ the lab objective; ♦ the objective compared with how they would have done in the other laboratory environment; ♦ the theory compared with how they would have done in the other laboratory environment; and ♦ troubleshooting compared with how they would have done in the other laboratory environment.Finally, throughout the semester students were asked to report on their experiences in the twodifferent lab environments. To do this, I talked to students individually, in small groups, and inthe classes as a whole. At the end of the semester, I conducted a focus group session with

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Craig W. Somerton

students may develop a negative attitude towards team activities.With the prevalence of teams in industry, this negative attitude could be detrimental in thesestudents’ career development The approach at the other extreme would be to do acomprehensive team survey as suggested by [1]. The difficulty with this approach is the timeand effort required by the instructor to implement it. In many cases what is needed is someuseful feedback tool that will give an indication as to poor team performance. A mechanism hasbeen developed in a senior level class in thermal design to provide this sort of information.A primary premise in this mechanism is that the best individual grade a student may receive forthe team activity is the team grade. However, due to

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Louis J. Plebani; Joseph C. Hartman

, retain it longer, and enjoy their classes most when they take the lead tothink about what they are doing. Research [1,2] has shown that there are two major motivators inthis regard: (1) when students work on problems they perceive as meaningful or relevant; and (2)when students are placed in a competitive situation in the role of a problem solver confronted withan ill-structured problem.In order to provide relevance, an instructor in quantitative courses often introduces anecdotalevidence concerning the application of the basic concepts. This may succeed in capturing interestduring a class period, but it is not often possible to provide problems that piggyback on theanecdotes. Usually, if a synergistic exercise is provided, it is in the form of

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Robert J Niewoehner; Joshua Filbey

analysis. In the[below] figure, the primary TetrUSS components are respectively GridTool, VGRIDns, USM3D,and VIGPLOT.” Page 5.704.2 Figure 1. TetrUSS OverviewAn overview of the TetrUSS suite may be found at the LaRC website, as well as an extensiveTetrUSS bibliography documenting details of the underlying algorithms.1As depicted in Figure 1, drawn from NASA-LaRC’s documentation, the solution processcomprises four major tasks, though the process is not serial as suggested. The TetrUSS suite doesaccommodate the use of tools outside the suite, but our experience has been restricted to theTetrUSS components alone.The

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Matthew M Whiteacre; James L. Wilson

approach, it is possible to create virtual models of the basic objects usingcomputer models and exporting these as VRML files. This allows the students to see the objectsand move about them to get the concepts of the actual 3D parts. These models can also beanimated to allow the various parts to move with respect to one another, thus allowing thestudents to get a better mental image of the objects they are to be drawing. This paper willdiscuss the basic creation techniques used at Texas A&M to make virtual models of the objectsused in ENGR 111 and ENGR 112 (Foundations of Engineering 1 and 2) and how they wereutilized in the classroom.Use of Physical ModelsTo assist the visual learners, physical examples should be used whenever possible. For

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Shravia D. Jackson; Christine L. Corum

significant difference in theperformance of students who receive web based training and those who receive traditionalclassroom instruction?” The latter question was the focus of this study. This study assessed theperformance of students who received web-based training in a mechanical engineeringtechnology course, versus students in the same course who did not receive the web-basedtraining. The title of the course studied was MET 142, Manufacturing Processes 1. This coursewas designed to introduce students to manufacturing processes such as casting, forming andwelding. A hands-on approach was used to introduce these concepts. Since not all studentsenrolled were Mechanical Engineering Technology majors, their diverse backgrounds had to betaken into

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Eric Bell

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Nickolas S. Jovanovic

fact, students who attendclasses in a classroom are also distance learners when they do schoolwork at home or at thelibrary. From this perspective, all students are distance learners most of the time, and so allstudents can benefit from web-based education systems. If we want students to learn the habitsof lifelong learning, then it is logical to encourage them to do a great deal of their learningoutside of the on-campus classroom.The benefits of web-based education systems include2: 1. Computer mediation, 2. Geographic independence, 3. Temporal independence, 4. Platform independence, 5. A simple, familiar, useful interface, 6. Increased communication, and 7

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Molly M. Gribb; Elisabeth M. Alford

engineering major in the firsttwo years.1 Forty-five percent cite the heavy workload and fast pace as their reason for leaving;forty-one percent say that ineffective teaching turned them off. And although nearly 25% of thestudents who left gave inadequate academic preparation as the main reason, all of the students inthe Seymour and Hewitt study were bright, well-qualified students.At the University of South Carolina, as at most research universities, the first two years of theengineering student's university experience involves taking a number of required science andmathematics courses. The students, eager to begin “real” engineering courses, have difficultymaking connections between these foundational courses and their careers as engineers. To

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Kenneth A. Knowles; Carl E. Wick

. Networks provide the “glue” that connect each of the localizedmodules together into a functioning whole. We believe that students who take courses inmicroprocessor embedded control should have some exposure to network-connected controlsystems, and if possible they should also have experience in their implementation. This paperdescribes a project that we undertook at the U.S. Naval Academy in our computer engineeringtrack where our students used an I2C network and PIC16C84 microprocessors to construct amodel distributed shipboard damage control system.1. IntroductionThe Weapons and Systems Engineering Department at the United States Naval Academy offersan ABET accredited Systems Engineering degree to about one hundred students annually. Aspart of

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Craig Gunn

communication is a tool that finds its way into everyarea of employment, cooperative education can provide students with not only knowledge of theworkplace but concrete experience in the need for good communication skill in the workingenvironment. Classroom instruction can provide a certain amount of practical knowledge, butthe forty-hour a week job brings the entire textbook learning into a proper perspective. It is withthis information in mind, that a systematic approach to provide a background for dealing withcommunication issues was begun in the Cooperative Education Division of the College ofEngineering at Michigan State University.1. IntroductionWithin many colleges of engineering, students are admitted to their respective departments intheir

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Robert Davis; Laura J. Genik; Craig W. Somerton

5.712.1thermodynamic relations to perform a systems analysis. The first law of thermodynamicsis used to evaluate the energy transfers for the ideal vapor compression refrigeration(VCR) cycle with either the operating temperatures or pressures known, the mass flowrate and the isentropic efficiency of the compressor, Figure 1. The program wasoriginally written in FORTRAN and has been recently converted to Microsoft VisualBasic to allow for a graphical user interface (GUI). Along with this conversion, a tutorialwas added which defines the working components of the system and steps through themethodology for solving cycles using VCR as an example. The program allows for theuser to do repeated calculations of the VCR cycle which would allow the student to beginto

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Ted Eschenbach

Page 5.70.1 Session 3642 Table 1. Summary of expectations Student Expectations • Knowledge, organizing and prioritizing topics, designing course • Enthusiasm • Respect for other demands – families, courses, jobs • Technology use – blackboards, overheads, PowerPoint, web/internet, engineering software • Prepare them for grading “opportunities,” other courses, FE, and the real world • Real world – topics covered, testing methods, insights about Colleague and Supervisor Expectations • Prerequisite knowledge • Reasonable workload • Grading standards • Balance innovation and conformity Your Expectations • Productive

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Riffe J. William; Joel K. Berry; Raghu Echempati

currently offered at Kettering University. The MfgE-404Sheet Metal Forming course is offered by IMEB Department (with ME-202: Mechanics of Solidsand MfgE-370: Engineering Materials as pre-requisites), and ME-510 Computer Simulation ofMetal Forming Processes (with MfgE-370, ME-315: Computer Aided Engineering and ME-342:Advanced Solids as pre-requisites, and possibly ME-429: Finite Elements as co-requisite). Catalogdescription of these courses is outlined in Appendix 1.Itemized objectives of the detailed plan I. Enhancement of the existing Sheet Metal Forming course (i) upgrade the existing stamping laboratory by procuring a hydraulic press and the accompanying controls and tooling (ii) prepare a set of experiments in